Weekly Wrap-Up ~ Map drawing, dollhouses and Miniature Golf
Monday: We started our Map Drawing with lines of latitude this week. This step seems to be easy for the kids so we will move on to longitude next. Check out my Hip Homeschool Hop post from Tuesday to see more details about this.
Tuesday: Tuesday was a special day for Chloe. Poppy finally helped her install the electric in her dollhouse, as well as build the porch and the stairs.
Wednesday: We missed Mr. Mike at story time this week. He was home sick so we had a story with Ms. Rebecca who read us How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long. Argh! It was a jolly good time! Then we had our usual lunch at the mall food court, but only with Poppy because Gommy had somewhere else to be.
Thursday: The kids have mastered The Presidents Song in just over a week. Even Ava manages to get through a bunch of the names. Now all I have to do is master them! Next week in my Hip Homeschool Hop I will talk about this and have a video of them singing it. How come they can absorb so much so quickly?
Since the kids did such a good job reading this summer, we have a variety of coupons for free things at various businesses. We loved the fact that the library gave out useful things instead of just cheezy little toys this year. Today we went miniature golfing and had frosties. All for free!
Friday: Today we are finishing up the week light; Spelling tests, math work, and our first memorization from First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind – Level 3. Here is the poem:
The Land of Nod
by Robert Louis Stevenson
From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay;
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod.
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All by myself I have to go,
With none to tell me what to do
All alone beside the streams
And up the mountainsides of dreams.
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The strangest things are there for me,
Both things to eat and things to see,
and many frightening sights abroad
Til morning in the land of Nod.
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Try as I like to find the way,
I never can get back by day,
Nor can remember plain and clear
The curious music that I hear.
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September 24, 2010 @ 2:41 pm
I like this…do I have to be a homeschooler to participate? I especially am glad to hear you’ll be sharing the president’s song…I need these cute little tips to help ME remember this stuff so I can be useful to my boys someday! 🙂
September 24, 2010 @ 6:20 pm
What a fun week! The dollhouse is lovely. And I loved the Land of Nod poem. I used FLL for years 1 and 2, but stopped there. Perhaps I’ll check out later grades!
September 24, 2010 @ 9:50 pm
I’m certain Chloe will always treasure this doll house for three important reasons. First, much of the material to build it came from the house at Craigg Road. Second, Gommy and Poppy purchased some of the interior furniture, carpeting, tin ceiling, electrical wiring system, fencing, etc. Lastly, the precious time and fun Chloe and Poppy shared together installing the wiring for her lights and building the stairs and patio roof. In the words of Poppy, “memories, memories”.
September 24, 2010 @ 10:28 pm
We’re doing FLL3 here too…we loved FLL1&2 and enjoying 3 so far! Love the dollhouse pics, my dd6 would love one of her own 🙂
September 25, 2010 @ 10:08 am
Wendi, my dad and I made the dollhouse from scraps that were from our old house before we moved 2 years ago. Even the roofing shingles were cut from the spares! It helped Chloe ease the transition out of the old house. Plus she had read and loved The Doll Peopleso I bought her porcelain dolls for it as well.
September 25, 2010 @ 9:35 pm
What an awesome dollhouse! It reminds me of the one that my grandfather started for me (but never did quite finish) when I was a kid. I bet your dd loves it. Mmmmm…a Frosty sounds really good right now. I should quite reading blog posts that mention food or my willpower is going to go out the window. 😉